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Location: Finland | hey guys i though id share these to you. i have been playing with silicone little and did couple of different models before these but figured i would show these here. they are 7.8 incers and have internal weights inside of them. they are still "blind " i just need to figure out what kind of eyes i will put on to these if i will do that at all, after all im sure the fish don't care about it that much.
-mikko
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Location: Madison, WI | Mikko,
Really cool...did you make the mold from RTV? I'm interested in how you molded the tail, did you make itas a solid disc and cut after pouring ?
Would love to see a pic of the mold.
Great work
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Location: Finland | muskyslayer96 - 2/26/2013 11:21 AM
Mikko,
Really cool...did you make the mold from RTV? I'm interested in how you molded the tail, did you make itas a solid disc and cut after pouring ?
Would love to see a pic of the mold.
Great work
MS
i made my 2 piece mold from from mold max 30 witch as far as i know is basically same or similar stuff as rtv silicone. i don't have a pour hole in the mold it self or even a vent hole, i do the pouring basically in 2 stages.
i pour the silicone from tail so that i have the whole mold in a vertical position the nose pointing downward, i have the 2 parts of the mold secured tightly with rubber bands to basically where the tail section starts, i then flex open the tail section so that i have a pour hole big enough that i can pour the silicone inside the body cavity.
then i add rubber bands to the tail section so that i can barely open a pour hole and then just pour the tail section when i let go of the mold the rubber bands tighten and force any excess silicone to gush out from the sides and top of the mold. usually there is only a very fine film of silicone flash on the tail thats easy to just peel off. |
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| Those look great! How much weight do the larger ones have? Would you be willing to sell a half dozen or so? If so please PM me.
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Location: Finland | muskienutz - 2/26/2013 1:03 PM
Those look great! How much weight do the larger ones have? Would you be willing to sell a half dozen or so? If so please PM me.
Thanks
they are all same length so there are no "larger ones" but I'm actually still figuring out the best weight so until i figure that out i'm probably not gonna sell them until then. after that i probably will, i have had lots of interest on them so far
Edited by SolarFall 2/26/2013 1:15 PM
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| Mikko,great works !!!
Are you going to make a video about the 2 stages of pouring?
( would be a good idea... )
esoxone
Edited by esoxone 2/26/2013 5:00 PM
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Location: Finland | esoxone - 2/26/2013 4:57 PM
Mikko,great works !!!
Are you going to make a video about the 2 stages of pouring?
( would be a good idea... )
esoxone
hmm i don't know maybe if i get around in doing that at some point |
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Location: Norway | If I understand Mikko correct about the pouring, I think you can find a similar technique on makelure.com, in the video section.
And as usual, reat work mikko perkele! 
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Location: Finland | Pikopath - 2/27/2013 2:08 AM
If I understand Mikko correct about the pouring, I think you can find a similar technique on makelure.com, in the video section.
And as usual, reat work mikko perkele!
Michael
yes exactly michael thats how i did it too pretty much, but instead of 1 piece mold they used in this vid (http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=ZHOcJuKbd0E#!) i just had a 2piece mold, exactly same principle.
oh and i took the curly tails for a swim today and i liked what i saw
Edited by SolarFall 2/27/2013 6:38 AM
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Location: Norway | I saw the vid. They looked nice in the water. I dragged out some goop myself today, lets see what comes out of it....
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| Mikko ....Sweet |
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